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You're tearing me apart! (startrek.website)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 95 points 5 months ago

I was fine with memes over the past few years ... sure they are a quick dopamine hit that make you laugh or think

But now when my friends send me tiktok videos ... especially when someone has been watching these video streams for hours or days ... they start sending out the most random, inane, mindless content ... it's the kind of material that keep a monkey occupied.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 53 points 5 months ago

it's the kind of material that keep a monkey occupied.

I think that's kind of the point. There was an article a while back that said the CCP/Bytedance intentionally serve up braindead content to everywhere outside China, while promoting educational and uplifting content at home.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have one 50 year old friend with very little tech know how and his kids set him up with a good smartphone. I saw his family about a year ago and his kids noted that their dad often sits up until about 2 or 3 in the morning at the kitchen table just scrolling through tiktok videos. He sent them to me about once a day until I had to block him and tell him directly to stop sending me this stuff. He's since become 'aware' of his addiction and stops sending out videos as often as he did before. He still scrolls through thousands and thousands of videos a day.

It would all be funny if it wasn't so frightening at the same time.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago

No kidding. I just find it ironic that the generation that kept saying "TV will rot your brain" is now completely consumed by social media.

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[-] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh shit!

This post actually made me look for a solution and I found one!
Solution to opening tiktoks without using tiktok app or site, not how to stop ur friends sending u garbage.

It made me think... mpv player can play basically any link you throw at it (thanks to yt-dlp), and we also have mpv on Android, so why can't we do it there as well. And sure enough, I found this https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android/pull/58, someone baked yt-dlp in mpv for Android, making it possible to open link in mpv (share >> play in mpv)

It works for instagram and all other shit.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Can't wait to try this out. Thanks for sharing.

[-] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

I have just moved to mpv from mx player due to this comment. Thanks!

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[-] ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 months ago

I felt this way with instagram. My phone can barely handle the web app and you can't even replay the video without an account. Truly garbage UX

[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago

Im pretty sure that meta purposefully makes the mobile websites for all their products as shit as possible to get people to use the real apps instead

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's what literally all social media sites do. It is far more profitable for people to be using your app than your mobile website. Apps make it much easier to harvest data and corral the user into the exact experience you want them to have (ads, suggestions, etc).

I know not many people here are going back to Reddit but just for a second, open your mobile browser, disable the add-ons if it's firefox, and go look at Reddit currently. Within the last few weeks they have absolutely massacred it. Like, truly, it is astoundingly bad now. The original mobile redesign of the site was already terrible, but this new-new-mobile reddit is so painfully bad that the only conceivable reason for its existence is to get people to give up and use the app.

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[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Any phone can barely handle the web app

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

I just shared this with my wife, since she has started sharing TikTok lately.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago

Sorry to hear your marriage is on the rocks mate. Hopefully it's just a phase.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/moodman-Rh4vxHtcmVyHUyugXP

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She sent this as a reply:

It's too late for me. Save yourselves!

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[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

PSA: If it's links on Discord, you can prefix the link with vx to make it natively embed so you don't have to click through (e.g. vxtiktok.com). This also works with twitter links (vxtwitter.com). People out there hosting these domains doing the lord's work

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[-] byroon@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

This but it's instagram

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 16 points 5 months ago

It's both. So annoying when the first bit is muted and you can't replay.

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[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I fucking abhor TikTok. Anybody who installs that app is a danger to themselves and a traitor to mankind. Disgusting fucking thing, it pisses me off.

The thing about it that irks me the most is that it's not even for any valuable means. It's just a slightly different FaceBook or YouTube Shorts platform! You're selling us all out for fucking video clips?!

[-] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

My thoughts exactly.

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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

I just ignore them because the videos are a mess of graphics and popups outside the app. It has literally made some videos unwatchable for me as they kept getting interrupted and breaking.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

It's the worst mobile website I've ever seen, which is impressive considering Facebook and Reddit have been intentionally breaking their mobile websites for years now.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

I just don't respond but she's not getting the hint.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Lol people don't know their friends are platform snobs 😅

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[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 months ago

As always I like promoting open source frontends for these pages. For tiktok I use proxytok. For changing any tiktok link to one of these instances use the libredirect extension for firefox, it also works in mobile

[-] hark@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Do memes stop being memes when they're on tiktok?

[-] S_204@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago

Once they hit TikTok, they're purely Chinese spyware.

[-] markon@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Facebook is just American spyware. The Chinese gov can't exactly send the feds to my house. You better bet the US gov can though!

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[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

And that's different than American spyware in several important ways, such as...

Such as...

Well shit.

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[-] AnxiousDuck@feddit.it 16 points 5 months ago

Have you heard about our lords and saviors the alternative frontends?

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 months ago

i shall retaliate with fediverse links

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Suddenly glad all of my friends are old people like me.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago

old people like me

The person who sends me far more TikTok videos than anyone else is my boomer dad.

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 13 points 5 months ago

This is why I wrote a Telegram bot that uses yt-dlp to convert videos and send them directly to people. My friend group all use different socials, Facebook, tiktok, Twitter, Lemmy, etc., and the bot will take the link, download the video, then send it back to the person, and then they can forward it to whatever chats they want.

It's been pretty fucking handy. That is, if your friends use Telegram.

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[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Ugh… I can feel this in my bones.